If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) – Occupy Wall Street activists plan to amass in Iowa one week before the Iowa caucuses - up to the day they're held on Jan. 3, CNN has learned.

The plan has been dubbed the "First in the Nation Caucus Occupation" - a play on words for the first-in-the-nation presidential contest. The idea is to have activists from across the nation, and possibly beyond, descend on Iowa.

The plan: "people coming to Iowa, occupying every presidential (candidate's) office, shutting them down until they start talking real turkey about what's going on in this country, where the 99% of the people who are not benefiting, at the expense of the 1% who are getting away with murder," said Frank Cordaro, one of the organizers.

The plan is to target offices for Republican candidates and President Barack Obama's campaign offices in the state. ...

I'd say that they were trying to re-do 1968, but most of these clowns down't remember what happened in Chicago at the Democratic Convention. Still, the idea of these idiots occupying Obama's campaign office is just too funny for words.

I'd say that they were trying to re-do 1968, but most of these clowns down't remember what happened in Chicago at the Democratic Convention. Still, the idea of these idiots occupying Obama's campaign office is just too funny for words.

I'd love to see them tazed with a 36KV power line, but I don't think the Obama campaign will do anything if this happens. The Ocampaign has nothing to gain or lose in the Iowa caucuses, it's a mere formality from their POV. They can afford to be lovey-dovey to the occupoopers there, while hoping there is violence at one or more of the Republican offices.

I'd love to see them tazed with a 36KV power line, but I don't think the Obama campaign will do anything if this happens. The Ocampaign has nothing to gain or lose in the Iowa caucuses, it's a mere formality from their POV. They can afford to be lovey-dovey to the occupoopers there, while hoping there is violence at one or more of the Republican offices.

Good point. If that's the case, it will be the mean old Republicans who end up having them tazed and hosed.

Originally Posted by Apocalypse

And when this doesn't work as police will be parked outside their offices ready for them. And they come up with the bright idea of "Occupying The Ballot", then it will be very interesting.

And please oh please come to my home town.

Also I work in a meat department. Wonder what I can come up with to fill water balloons to pitch at them. ;)

I recommend a mixture of sugar and water. That way, when the bugs come out, they'll be miserable. :D

At the risk of sounding paranoid, an occupation of polling places would work to the left's advantage, in that it would either prevent voting, or give them ammunition to claim that the response by law enforcement was somehow illegitimate. Anything to throw the election into the courts. The end result is that when the Republican wins, he ends up with less legitimacy, and the left can use that to undermine them , but if the Democrat wins, they will consolidate power with the excuse of massive civil unrest as a causus belli. We're dealing with thugs in Armani suits, and we should never forget that.